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How do you come up with names for your characters?
Arlo and Augustus are great names for characters, but how does Catherine dream them up?
  1. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  2. Scots
    01:14
    Scots
  3. Writing in Scots
    01:54
    Writing in Scots
  4. Minging!
    00:42
    Minging!
  5. Taking on Roald Dahl
    02:40
    Taking on Roald Dahl
  6. The right words
    02:22
    The right words
  7. Quentin Blake
    00:42
    Quentin Blake
  8. A reading in Scots
    02:35
    A reading in Scots
  9. Questions
    01:21
    Questions
  10. More questions
    03:14
    More questions
  11. Even more questions
    03:39
    Even more questions
  12. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
  13. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  14. Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
    06:54
    Reading from Grimwood: Attack of the Stink Monster
  15. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
  16. Ideas
    03:35
    Ideas
  17. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  18. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  19. How to Draw Eric Dynamite
    08:33
    How to Draw Eric Dynamite
  20. Pupils' questions
    07:21
    Pupils' questions
  21. A question about Charlie and Lola
    01:44
    A question about Charlie and Lola
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